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THE TREE DOCTOR 



Photo 174 

 There is no Beauty in Half Dead Trees. 



Shorn and trained trees are always in good taste in a coun- 

 try cemetery, but not in a city cemetery. The Streetsboro, 

 (O.) cemetery was "landscaped" and many of the young Arbor 

 Vita, Spruce and Hemlock trees put under training eighteen 

 years ago, and, since that, it has been the admiration of people 

 from both country and city. 



Every child should know vines at sight. In Photo 172, at 

 the upper left-hand corner, is a leaf of the Ampelopsis Quinque- 

 folia (Virginia Creeper), five lobes to the leaf. To the right of 

 that is a variegated Hop leaf, in form much like the Maple. Few 

 people seem to know the beauty of this vine, and most of those 

 who do try to grow it nearly starve it to death. Vines, in gen- 

 eral, may be treated like foliage plants heavily fed. Ampelop- 

 sis Veitchii (Boston Ivy) seems to thrive where nothing else will, 

 and nothing will cover a wall so completely, (see the house in 

 Photo 135.) The leaf of the Boston Ivy is seen in the middle 

 of the panel, Photo 172. See how different in form the "Ameri- 

 can Ivy." to the left, above it. The "poison Ivy" should be 



